How common is the surname Gamache?

4,082 people in the United States had the surname Gamache in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,636 Americans. It ranked 8,126th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Gamache?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gamache identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Gamache getting more or less common?

More common. 4,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,082 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Gamache

A surname, carried by 4,082 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Gamache is more common than 95% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,082 people named Gamache in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 75,636 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 4,068.

#8,126

rank among US surnames

4,082

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #7,541)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,119	Mastin	4,085	75,580
#8,121	Klassen	4,084	75,599
#8,124	Brodsky	4,083	75,617
#8,126	Gamache	4,082	75,636
#8,127	Crew	4,081	75,654
#8,128	Anson	4,079	75,691
#8,130	Shuck	4,078	75,710

Who is named Gamache

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Gamache identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.0% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 2.0%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Gamache

Gamache has the Soundex code G520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G520.

Questions

How common is the surname Gamache?: 4,082 people in the United States had the surname Gamache in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 75,636 Americans. It ranked 8,126th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Gamache?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Gamache identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Gamache getting more or less common?: More common. 4,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,082 in 2010, up 0.3%.